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Photo supplied by May Ambridge (nee Butterworth)
Above: An RAOB parade to Saint Andrews Church, circa 1955, seen outside Ruby's Fish Shop on the Green.
The only people that we have yet been able to conclusively identify are Councillor Walter Johnson (far left), and Eric Butterworth (1919 - 78), who is seen wearing the tiler's chain of office. The small boy in the foreground is Ian Hollick.
The appearence of the Fish Shop has changed beyond recognition, though it remains a thriving concern. The business was taken over by Mr Michael Demetriou in 1977.
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Photo supplied by Colin Waterfield
Above: Parade of the RAOB, Thringstone Green, 'Wake Sunday', September, 1960.
Note the presence of the lorry belonging to "Armstrong's Funfair", and also the house behind this belonging to Mrs Neale, which has long since been demolished. Behind this can be seen the Thringstone House Hall, built by Charles Booth for the use of local people in 1911. Members of the Saint John's Ambulance Brigade can be seen to the far left of the parade.
The small boy on the far right of the picture is Stephen Straw; the other boy standing in the back row and glancing toward him is Robert Waterfield. Robert stands behind Freddie Ginever of Shepshed, who obscures the view of Joseph Stamford Knight standing in the row behind. At the end of the front row, far right, is Frank Waterfield (landlord of the Queens Head), and behind him (wearing a trilby hat) can be seen Teddy Eggleton, the proprietor of a lodging house in the City of Dan, Whitwick. He, in turn, stands in front of Mark Cooper. Moving right to left along the front row, away from Frank Waterfield, are Sam Collier of Whitwick; Colin Waterfield; Ernest Stanley (the owner of a Fish Shop at the bottom of Leicester Road, Whitwick); and Frank Lees (who kept a shop in Golden Row on Talbot Street).
The photograph was taken by Mrs Ruby Bamford (nee Waldrum), the eponymous proprietor of the Fish Shop.
(SNB)